The party of smaller government
A bill to make the Bible the official state book.
And one I actually like: Fining left lane huggers.
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April 5th, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Like a heavily voice from above, “Left lane sign” speaks truth to all.
World without end.
Amen.
April 5th, 2016 at 10:39 pm
I’d like the left lane law if it didn’t send men with guns to enforce it. Especially not men with guns who like to seize and forfeit private property on a whim.
Except privately I’d like to seize and forfeit the shit in the car ahead of me, starting with the goddam cellphone he won’t get off of.
April 5th, 2016 at 11:59 pm
I-94 Rogers to Maple Grove, MN. Used to be (5 years ago), I could drive the far right lane at ten over, passing cars in the left and center lanes as I was the only one using that EMPTY lane. Now there are actually slow vehicles properly using that lane, rather than the left lane.
Overall, I would say it is improving.
April 6th, 2016 at 8:04 am
The Left Lane Hoggers trope always cracks me up due mainly to the hypocrisy of it. The people complaining about other drivers staying in the left lane are upset only because they want to drive faster than the posted speed limit (literally breaking the law at their own convenience). It has absolutely nothing to do with passing slower moving traffic and then conscientiously resuming the maximum posted speed. It has everything to do with driving as fast as you think you can get away with until you are pulled over for speeding.
I’ve spent decades observing speeding drivers racing down the left lane, getting upset with someone in “their” lane who is driving slower than they are—but who also happens to be driving *faster* than the posted speed limit—who, at the first opportunity dodge around them and race on at even higher speeds. I have spent countless hundreds of thousands of miles in suburbs, cities and country back roads all over the country and know for a fact that driving 8-10 miles over the speed limit accomplishes two golden ticket truths: you’re well below the speed 99.9% of the cops will bother to pull you over for, and that you will spend vastly less time changing speed and breaking and steering to move around slower right lane traffic. A lesser benefit for the speed demons who prefer driving 15-30 miles per hour over the limit is that they can not only quickly climb up your tail pipe, but because you are driving 8-10 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limit, and thereby passing slower traffic on your right, the speed demon behind you can quickly find a gap to cut around you, flip you off, and vanish over the horizon. And, of course, never return to the right lane where they believe you belong. After all, it’s always all about them, never anyone else.
April 6th, 2016 at 11:10 am
As in most of life, this problem boils down to the continuing existence of other people.
April 6th, 2016 at 11:53 am
In the few months it’s been in effect, Indiana’s hasn’t helped much. I don’t know if anyone’s even been ticketed for it. They still camp in the passing lane.
As to MrSatyre’s “it’s always all about them, never anyone else.” That’s rich! Speeding impedes no one else. Camping in the passing lane impedes all the other traffic.
Camping in the passing lane is the same as taking up the entire aisle in a grocery store with your cart preventing others from getting by– rude and selfish.
April 6th, 2016 at 12:48 pm
“Other legislators argued the measure is unnecessary because Tennessee law already requires drivers to keep to the right, except when passing.”
Any guess how many legislators argue as above yet say we need more gun control laws so that no more innocents are murdered by criminals? The cognitive dissonance is grating…
April 6th, 2016 at 2:09 pm
As in most of life, this problem boils down to the continuing existence of other people.
Mikee, I am so stealing that.
April 6th, 2016 at 5:52 pm
Colorado has Slower Traffic Keep Right/Keep Right Except To Pass on the books, but I’ve never seen it enforced. I wish to hell they would. Trucks should also be required to stay in the right hand lane unless they’re about to turn left.
April 6th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Think about this:
The accident and injury/fatality rates go DOWN when the cops are known to NOT be writing speeding tickets. The .gov’s own data proves this over and over.
IOW, without cops writing tickets, we are safer!
April 7th, 2016 at 11:03 am
In addition to what Will said: It has been found that most roads have what amounts to a “natural speed limit” – the speed that (IIRC) ~90% of drivers will adhere to, regardless of what is actually posted, even if the posted limit is higher. When the posted limit is lower than the natural limit, accident rates go up, because the actual speed is a far less important factor in safety than consistency of speed. In other words, it’s safer for 90% of traffic to be going 75mph than it is for 60% of traffic to be going 65mph.
April 7th, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Speed limits are traditionally set by the “85% rule.”
Back when the idea of speed limits was new, no one had any idea how to set them. Highway engineers decided to set the speed limit at the speed that 85% of the drivers were going, on the theory (common then, but unheard-of now) that ordinary citizens were smart enough to look out for their own well-being. Of course, speed limits are set by formulas today, but the formulas are based on the old rule.
And if you’ve been driving a while, you know what the limit should be. If the posted limit is 10 under the natural limit (say, a 45-mph road is posted at 35), you know you’re on a money road that’s posted lower to get ticket revenue. So be careful.
April 8th, 2016 at 2:09 am
Darrell: Drive a truck for a while, and see if you feel the same way. Keep in the right lane as someone enters the freeway at 30 mph, with a cheeseburger in one hand, and a vat of soda in the other, steering with his knee and talking on a cell phone.
Gnash your teeth as someone going 10 mph UNDER the posted speed limit idles along in front of you, and when the traffic to your left finally breaks enough for you to swing your 40-ton, 70-ft-long vehicle to the passing lane, that driver will suddenly discover 50 extra horsepower he never knew his car had. Every. Time. (Then get back behind this baboon and see the cycle repeated.)
And consider the legions of imbeciles who will fly like a bat out of hell to pass you, then dive into your lane and slam on their brakes because they’re now going too fast to negotiate the exit they need to take OMGRIGHTNOW—why didn’t he simply slow down sooner and slide into the EMPTY half-mile of lane behind me? Your guess is as good as mine. But you wanna guess who’ll get cited if he’s rear-ended? Well, there’s where the scores can REALLY add up!
Most truckers get paid by the mile, not the hour— which means they’re not going slow because they just feel like cruising. I figure if I’m just going to get honked at and flipped off anyway, I might as well be in the center or left lane, going as fast as possible/ prudent.